Van Kleeck Allison

Van Kleek Allison (born ca. 1894, date of death unknown) was a birth control activist that worked in the birth control movement in the United States. He was arrested in Boston in July 1916, for handing out leaflets that described contraception, and sentenced to three years in prison.^[1] ^[2] Allison was the child of a wealthy New York family, and edited a radical Boston newspaper.^[3]

Notes

^ Chesler, Ellen, Woman of Valor, p 171
^ Kennedy, David, Birth Control in America, p 82
^ Sanger, Margaret, The Selected Papers, Vol 1, p 192

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Name	Allison, Van Kleeck
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Short description	Birth control advocate
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